Definition of subtract in English:

verb

Dollar amounts were calculated by subtracting the rework cost from the Navy stock number ‘ready-for-issue’ value.

So to get the correct figure, we have to subtract the number of days when it was both.

Not only does the game add and subtract a number of different fields to generate a final total for a race, you can easily spend half a minute or more just watching the game tally up the number of mistakes you made.

Derivatives

subtracter

A machine with storage, with this automatic-telephone-exchange arrangement and with the necessary adders, subtractors and so on, is, in a sense, already a universal machine.

The apparatus includes an adaptive filter including an ingress synthesizer for recreating the undesired ingress signal and an ingress subtractor for subtracting the recreated ingress signal from the input signal.

The output of the microphone is combined in a subtractor with the acoustic echo replica, producing the residual echo.

subtractive

The paintings began to take on more of the qualities of sculptures, featuring ‘the removal and chipping away or carving out of surfaces,’ remnants of subtractive gestures and large tracts of unfinished canvas.

His subtractive procedure is the ruthless evacuation of everything taken-for-granted as a prelude to the construction of a new Good.

Most of their work is subtractive: products we don't need, resources we shouldn't have wasted.